The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-11

ference for any purpose, even to pre-
serve the peace and protect the rights of |
property; and yet their reasoning, in the !
abstract, is substantially the same, and II |
followed to its conclusion, would produce |
substantially the same result. The man
who believes that it is the right and duty
of the Government to take the earnings of
one citizen by taxation or otherwise, and
gives them to another, differs very little
from the man who denies the right OF
property altogether. [Cheers and ap
plausel. If the Government may rightful-
ly compel you by law to give any part of
the proceeds of your labor or your skill to
another man, why may it not, with
equal right, compel him to give him your
horse or your land2 The fact that this is
done ingeniously and under the guise OF
taxation, does not in the slightest degree
affect the question of right or wrong in
volved in the transaction, but it greatly
increases the danger to the people, be-
cause they are less likely to de-
tect and resist the spoliatiou when it is
committed through this incidious process.
And If the Government may rightfuliy
collect by taxation and then divide it as
bounty or subsidy to individuals or cor
porations engaged in particular industries,
or enterprises, in order to make their pri-
vate business profitable, why may 1t not
also collect it and distribute it among par
ticular classes OF the people in order to
equalize their fortunes. and thus accom-
pl1sh all that Socialism and Com
munism are demanding? There is
so little difference in principle aud
in practical results between paternal
is not worth while to express preference
for one over the other.
Just before midnight General Simon Boil
liver Buckner was nominated for Governor
by reclamation. The nominating speech
was made by Hon. w. s. Ellis, OF Owens
boro, succeeded by Hon. Mat Adams, of
Knox. Seeing that the convention was
almost unanimous for Buckner, the
other candidates, Senator J. w. Harris,
Colonel G. A. G. Holt and Senator A. S.
Berry withdrew from the race in appropri-
ate speeches. General Buckner was sent for
and escorted to the stand, where he made
a rousing speech that was applauded
throughout. The platform and resolutions
were then read:
rity and conscientious devotion to duty of
President Grover Cleveland, and c0ngratu-
late the country and the party upon the
accession of a Democratic administration,
national, economic and clean; and we par
ticularly applaud the President for the
fidelity and courage with which he has pro-
tected the treasury from pillage by his ex-
I'VE favor honest civil service reform. by
which we mean the enforcement of the
faithful performance by persons appointed
to Office of all public duties intrusted to
them, and to this end, as well as to the
maintenance OF the spirit OF our represent
alive form of government, we demand the
strictest measure of personal and party re-
sponsibility, and are opposed to the substi
tuition, in room of this, of life tenure,
civil pension list, and all other appendages
OF q bureaucratic system foreign to the
genius of our institutions and people.
"We declare the honest money of the Con-
stitution good enough for the people as ex-
pressed IN gold and silver, and paper con-
vertble into coin on demand; and opposed
to all sumptuary laws.
1--WE contend that there are already on
our statute books sufficient general laws
having local application to protect the
public morals, without infringing on
private rights.
"Wesympathize most earnestly with the
people of Ireland in their struggle for local
self government, and we unite with the
friends of liberal progress in all parts of the
world in denouncing the coercive measures
now pending in the British Parliament as
monstrous crime against brave, generous
and long suffering people, an obstruction to
human freedom, and abhOrrent to the spirit
of liberty in every land.
I'VE view with alarm the growing
tendency among certain classes of citizens
to seek the aid and bounty Of the General
Government, and as an incident of this
tendency to enlarge the powers granted,
and to employ powers meyer contemplated
by the Constitution, and we reassert the
time-hoDored Democratic doctrine, that
all powers not delegated to the United
States are reserved to the States respect
lively or to the people,
1--WE denounce the present war tariff,
laid to confuse as well as to harrass the
people, as a masterpiece of I'M ustice, of
inequality and false pretense. 1t has been
maintained by selfish and false theory of
protection, which robs the many to benefit
the few. 1t has piled up in the national
Treasury a surplus which menaces the
prosperity of all classes and every indus
try. We demand the immediate reduction
of this war tariff, not merely as an act Of
redress to the people promised by all par
ties, but as the only safe and just method
of reducing the surplus; and in making
such reduction we demand, further, that
the taxes shall first be abolished or lowered
upon the necessaries of life; and, finally
we reassert the constitutional and Demo-
cratic doctrine that taxes should be levied
exclusively for public purposes, and linn
tied to the requirements of the government
economically administered"
Hon. Pres Taulbee OBJ ected to the clause
relating to President Cleveland's vetoing
the pension bill and pending discussion,
the convention adjourned till tomorrow at
pa. m.